Autumn 2023
EVEN IF I KNEW THAT TOMORROW THE WORLD WOULD GO TO PIECES, I WOULD STILL PLANT MY APPLE TREE. Martin Luther (alleged quote)
EVEN IF I KNEW THAT TOMORROW THE WORLD WOULD GO TO PIECES, I WOULD STILL PLANT MY APPLE TREE. Martin Luther (alleged quote)
QUO VADIS LIVING HOPE? “What’s next?” “What are your plans for the future?” “Will you continue to work in Ukraine?” -These and similar questions have been asked by many friends and people we know in the past weeks and months. In this newsletter we want to give a short report on what we have done…
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WAITING WITH LIVING HOPE … Surrounded by such true and gentle powers Surrounded by such true and gentle powers. So wondrously consoled and without fear, Thus will I spend with you thesefinal hours and then together enter a new year. By gentle powers lovingly surrounded, with patience we’ll endure, let come what may. God…
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Behind every number hides a destiny… On 12.01.2001, the doors of our Day care Centre on Dneprpetrovska Street in Odessa opened for the very first time – at that time for 12 children from families facing great challenges due to poverty, illness, housing shortages and addictions. Since that time, not only has the name of…
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JOY AND SORROW GO HAND IN HAND IN LIFE There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:1,4
Remember this. I can do something you can’t do and you can do something, I can’t do. But we both have to do it. Mother Teresa
ONE COMMUNITY – THREE PLACES – MANY STORIES 2020 is coming to an end. A year very different from what we had all planned and expected. Suddenly everyone realises how little we humans actually have in our hands. Basically nothing, because none of us can, as it says in the Bible, “prolong our life even…
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LIVING HOPE IN SPITE OF UNCERTAINTY The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible. Prayer of Corrie ten Boom
LIVING HOPE IN TIMES OF CRISIS By loving forces wonderfully sheltered, we are awaiting fearlessly what comes. God is with us at dusk and in the morning and most assuredly on every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer in december 1944
STANDING TOGETHER IN JOY AND SUFFERING Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. Live in harmony with one another. The Bible – Letter to the Romans 12:15-16